descend from somebody/something

phrasal verbphr v

a) be descended from somebodySSFCOME FROM/ORIGINATE to be related to a person or group who lived a long time ago 为某人的后裔

She claims to be descended from Abraham Lincoln.

她声称自己是亚伯拉罕·林肯的后代。

The people here are descended from the Vikings.

这里的人是维京人的后裔。

b) COME FROM/ORIGINATEto have developed from something that existed in the past 从〔过去的东西〕发展而来[传下来] SYN come from

ideas that descend from those of ancient philosophers

传承自古代哲学家的观点

Examples from the Corpus

descend from • All Gauls claimed to be descended from him.• Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors.• The family was an illegitimate branch of the Yorkshire Hoptons, being descended from Sir Robert Swillington by his mistress Joan Hopton.• For a split second, the noise that had been rising from stadium to sky descended from sky to stadium.• Then he walked back to the bridge site to meet his wife, who was coolly descending from the iron basket.• Guerrillas descended from the Lacandon Volcano in Quetzaltenago.• Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species.

be descended from somebody• The University of Edinburgh's most famous dropout, Charles Darwin, pointed out that human beings are descended from animals.• Stu's mother is descended from Cherokee Indians.• All Gauls claimed to be descended from him.• Through him the Merovingians can thus claim to be descended from Noah.• If you believe in evolution, you believe man is descended from primates, and primates are vegetarian.• One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears, the other is descended from slaves.• Power still comes from a small block, two-valve push-rod V-8 whose principal architecture is descended from the 1953 original.• When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.• Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species.

→ descend from somebody/something at descend(2)

词汇	descend from somebody/something
释义	descend from somebody/something descend from somebody/something phrasal verbphr v a) be descended from somebodySSFCOME FROM/ORIGINATE to be related to a person or group who lived a long time ago 为某人的后裔 She claims to be descended from Abraham Lincoln. 她声称自己是亚伯拉罕·林肯的后代。 The people here are descended from the Vikings. 这里的人是维京人的后裔。 b) COME FROM/ORIGINATEto have developed from something that existed in the past 从〔过去的东西〕发展而来[传下来] SYN come from ideas that descend from those of ancient philosophers 传承自古代哲学家的观点 Examples from the Corpus descend from • All Gauls claimed to be descended from him.• Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors.• The family was an illegitimate branch of the Yorkshire Hoptons, being descended from Sir Robert Swillington by his mistress Joan Hopton.• For a split second, the noise that had been rising from stadium to sky descended from sky to stadium.• Then he walked back to the bridge site to meet his wife, who was coolly descending from the iron basket.• Guerrillas descended from the Lacandon Volcano in Quetzaltenago.• Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species. be descended from somebody• The University of Edinburgh's most famous dropout, Charles Darwin, pointed out that human beings are descended from animals.• Stu's mother is descended from Cherokee Indians.• All Gauls claimed to be descended from him.• Through him the Merovingians can thus claim to be descended from Noah.• If you believe in evolution, you believe man is descended from primates, and primates are vegetarian.• One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears, the other is descended from slaves.• Power still comes from a small block, two-valve push-rod V-8 whose principal architecture is descended from the 1953 original.• When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.• Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species. → descend from somebody/something at descend(2)
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